Land & Environment

The security of land tenure of black South Africans remains largely unaddressed since 1994 with insufficient progress on land restitution and redistribution of less than a third of the target 26 million hectares in 24 years since democracy.

We pointed out in our last article some of the strange ideas of the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the body that controls the Humboldt Forum where African artefacts, formerly in the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, will be transferred.

Energy poverty is a persistent problem for refugees. Isolated from the national grid and lacking reliable access to renewable power, the search for alternative energy is a struggle refugees are often confronted with.

When US ambassador Debra Malac left her office on 19 January 2018 to meet with Uganda’s disgraced Minister for Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa, a number of options were open to her.

The late Henry Kendall was a Nobel Laureate in Physics, a professor at MIT, a founding member of the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Chairman of its governing board.  In 1992, he spearheaded an effort to warn humanity of eventual disaster unless it changed its ways.  The ap

The transnational corporations responsible for over 70% of the man-made emissions continue to push forward new false solutions to address the climate crisis.

Someone asked my son when he was about three years, I think it was Dr. Zelalem, ‘what is the job of your father?’ He said ‘Sibseba’, which in Amharic means ‘meetings’. This was because every time he asked me where I was going, I used to tell him to Sibeseba.

Last week, the infamous land grabber in Ethiopia, Sai Karuturi, wrote a letter  informing the black apartheid T-TPLF (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front) prime minister that he has had enough and wants out.

One of the things that have puzzled me a lot over the continued participation of Chinese nationals in galamsey (illegal artisanal mining) in Ghana – given the overwhelming visual evidence that attests to the horrendous devastation that galamsey is wreaking on the environment in

When we hear news about renewable energy projects, one must be forgiven for thinking that it’s all beautiful and shiny.